Oded Arbel wrote:
On Monday 12 April 2004 02:04, Diego Iastrubni wrote:I haven't heard such a thing on this list for a long time. For some reason, people fail to understand that the goal defines the means of achieving it, not vice versa. If one of the basic requirements is "easy installation (next,next,next)" and "web-based configuration", then how come that people advise him not to "be lazy" and install all the hard way. When a linux guru installs a router on his home network, he should use debian or gentoo, so that he will get all updates in time and be able to do the advanced stuff he wants, that goal-oriented distros, like those mentioned earlier, usually do not provide (static routes, VPN, etc).
Oded, debian is the only distro which you can trust with packages. It comes with a price: hard install + no gui.
I'm really sick with all the Debian bias on this list. there are other distros out there, some are very good and some are better then Debian - at least for some purposes.
I sure can trust Mandrake, SuSE and other distros with pacakges - and they **have** easy graphical installers.
I've used Debian in the past, and I'd probably use it again in the future, but my take on it is that unless you are a linux freak with at least 2 years hard linux admin under your belt, and assuming the box you install isn't for playing around with Linux installation and administration problems, then Debian isn't for you.
Now to the subject. I'm going to sound the extremely heretical idea. Not everyone needs a Linux router for that. What I'd do in such situation is get them a dedicated router specially designed for that matter. I don't mean the PC with Linux installed, but a little box the size of the adsl modem, which all it is able to do is to be an adsl (or cable) router. It's very cheap (~300 NIS) and usually has Linux somewhere deep inside -- it's not that its manufacturers want to implement everything from the beginning. You configure the computers to use DHCP, plug them in, plug the modem -- it works. It surely meets all the basic requirements you've specified at the original mail. The only one of your requirements that it doesn't meet is being able to show her how Linux is installed. Install it on that p133 box you wanted to use and you're done
Cheers, L.
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